Museum on the Move

Building upon our innovative approaches to teaching and practicing Public History, the History Department is proud to present Museum on the Move.

Trailer

History students outfit a 1954 Airstream trailer with an interpretive exhibit that hits the road to take history out of the classroom and to the public.

Process

Exhibits are created on a rotating basis and require the melding of two courses and a cohort of students. The first course is a traditional history course where students conduct research projects geared toward the planned exhibit. The next phase of the project is a Museum Studies course in which students re-craft the research done in the first class to create exhibit components that they will install in the trailer.

In the end, it is our intent for the program to teach students the methods and value of creative approaches to practicing history, to provide our students with marketable skills, and to establish a recognizable product in the form of rotating exhibits in a compelling package.